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My HongFu 56 tubulars are built and on the way back. Problem is now, I'm waiting for PBK to get my new tires/glue shipped to me I'm going to mount. Once I got those, just need a few days and ready to roll. Will report back and provide weights of the built wheels.

For those of you who have ordered either the Hongfu/UAM 56mm or LB 45mm wheels, what sort of prices have you been quoted?

Hongfu is quoting me a price of $625 + $85 (shipping to US) for the 56mm aero wheels (with the standard 20H/24H spoke count).LB is quoting me a price of $560 + $78 (shipping to US) for their 45mm U-Shaped wheels customized to 24H/28H rather than the standard 20H/24H.

Has anyone that has purchased these wheels been quoted a better price?

thanks for your messag,about this full carbon Areo rims, HF-R56,the best price is 340usd/pair, tubular,and clincher is 410usd/pair.the shipping cost is 75usd to USA.there we accept paypal.so you only need one pair ?wait your reply.thank you!best regards.coby

I was asking about rims only though. but I'd like to add this info to the discussion.

I contacted Vivian at HongFu this afternoon regarding their UAM-brand 56mm x 27mm carbon tubular wheelset (http://www.uamcycling.com/ens/?topclass ... 299&id=162). She replied promptly within a few hours (morning in her location in China, I assume). She says the wheels are in stock (sans decals) and that I can choose either Powerway or Chosen hubs with CN spokes. After a request for photos to confirm the u-shape version she followed up with a standard photo of the wheelset (taken from their online catalogue I assume), as well as a basic profile diagram of their various rim depths available.

This new "M" series carbon clincher from far sports has my interest. After all the reading up on November's wheel, they concluded that having an 18mm width from clincher wall to clincher wall really made the wheel "rail" in corners, etc. This wheel is the first from China (that I've spotted) to have an aero profile, but ALSO the same 18mm internal width ::

This new "M" series carbon clincher from far sports has my interest. After all the reading up on November's wheel, they concluded that having an 18mm width from clincher wall to clincher wall really made the wheel "rail" in corners, etc. This wheel is the first from China (that I've spotted) to have an aero profile, but ALSO the same 18mm internal width ::

This is an old design thats been out a while and its more like the pre-firecrest wheels. the flat brake trac negatively effects the aero performance a lot. You'd be better off in my opinion going with a newer design that has a more aero shape with the brake trac aiding the aero effect. Far Sport has a couple of those new designs that are more like the November, Firecrest design.

Light-Bicycle has the internal width at just over 17mm and I think the Hongfu is around 18mm, not sure what the internal diameter of the new Far Sports wheels is but its probably in the 17 range

^very good point. I admit I didn't even notice the "bulge". Definitely older aero shaping. I found the drawing for the HongFu clincher, and it measures 16.9mm. Weirdly I couldn't find the Light-Bicycle schematic. I'm certain it is found in this thread, but given that we have 49 pages now, I'm not really interested in searching for it.

Anyone happen to have a copy of it?

**Edit**

I found it using google (which is where I should have looked first). Their rim measures 17.1mm.

I think somebody in this thread got a set of these if I'm not mistaken. Farsports is complicated cause they have so many designs and they all label them as U-shape. Its hard to tell which ones are actually in the same design philosophy of November, Light-Bicycle, or Hungfu. Have them send you the cross section to make sure.

Hongfu, Light-Bicycle, or these Farsports all would be great choices in my opinion.

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